Anne Frank

Impact on people of the Holocaust Awareness

Gale Databases:

"Considering Anne Frank as a writer." Washington Times [Washington, DC] 6 Dec. 2009: M26. Student Edition. Web. 3 Dec. 2010.

1) An article about Anne's diary appeared in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool in 1946

2) Passages were ommitted because they were too harsh towards Anne's mother.

3) For millions of people, Anne Frank's history has come to symbolize one of Europe's deadliest conflagrations

4) The world thinks that the Franks were emblematic of what happened to the Jews in the Netherlands

5) international public has gained the impression that whole Jewish families could go into hiding together

6) people thought it would take years before they could read the book and not be terrified about it

7) the Washington Times wrote an article on Anne Frank, recently (2009)

8) Anne Franks become an iconic figure to so many readers and so many countries

9) Teenage messenger of peace and love

10) most often quoted entry of her diary, of her belief in the goodness of people

11) Today, there are dramatic versions taught in classrooms

12) Diary of Anne Frank has promoted young people to confront their troubled past and raise their voices

13) Anne Frank is finally given her due as a writer

14) Schools all around are learning the story

15) students in this study liked to think of her as being hopeful, in love, frolicking, and--perhaps most surprising--still alive

16) teachers think having students read the Diary they will become motivated to learn about the history

SIRS Knowledge (magazines)

17) best known victim of the haulocost

18) making of atleast 25 different languages

19) one of the 20th century's most widely read books.

20) conversion of a child into a person as it is happening in a precise, confident, economical style stunning in its honesty

21) no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank

22) single representative of the millions of people who suffered and died as she did

23) Anne Frank theater project at the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center

24) Her diary gained international fame and became one of the world's most published books

25) The diary was meant to just be a place for Anne to vent while in hiding during the Nazi Holocaust

26) when anne died in concentration camp, papers were turned over to her father, Otto Frank

27) Ottof Frank turned them in to be published as the Diary of Anne Frank

28) Very painful for him to read the diary

29) Reading the diary allows others to humanize the victims of the Holocaust and understand the effects of hatred and genocide

30) Anne is a household name and now considered a hero by many

British Library

"Anne Frank." THE BRITISH LIBRARY - The World's Knowledge. Web. 06 Dec. 2010. http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/voices/info/annefrank/annefrank.html.

31) she had hoped to become an author in her time

32) she was thirteen when her and her family went into hiding

33) Anne's family decided to go into hiding after Jews were deported

34) The Frank family remained in their hiding place from 9 July 1942 to 4 August 1944

35) together with four other jews

36) kept alive with the help of their non Jewish Dutch office workers

37) they were betrayed and family was deported to Westbork camp

38) then to Auschwitz-Birkenau

39) November 1944 Anne arrived with her sister Margot in Bergen-Belsen

40) fell ill and died of typhus in March 1945

41) wrote several short stories as well as her diary in time of hiding

42) diary expresses her hopes and aspirations for the future, which were never to be realised

43) middle-class, liberal Jewish family whose ancestors had lived in Germany for centuries

44) considered Germany their home

45) very difficult decision for them to leave Germany in 1933 and start a new life in the Netherlands

46) Anne had to leave her Montessori school to attend the Jewish Lyceum

47) Nearly a year before Anne received her diary, the Franks had begun organizing a hiding place

48) For Anne's 13th birthday (June 12, 1942), she received a red-and-white-checkered autograph album that she decided to use as a diary

49) Anne called hiding place the Secret Annex

50) was born in Frankfurt, Germany

51) she was still attending the Jewish Secondary School

52) All the versions of Anne Frank's texts were published in 1986

53) world famous diary charts two years of her life from 1942 to 1944

54) (1929-1945)

55) born on June 12, 1929

56) Otto, was the son of wealthy parents

57) loss of his parent's fortune during the 1920s' inflation in Germany

58) Otto Frank became the managing director of a food company

59) with a warehouse and office on the Prinsengracht, one of the cities canal/streets

60) Jews were forced to wear the yellow Jewish star of David

61) Otto Frank survived. (He died in 1980.)

62) started on a novel also during her period in hiding

63) Anne's diary, originally published as Het Achterhuis,

64) will be valuable to many readers

65) her special attention was given to a budding puppy love with Peter van Daan

66) affair ended soon because it was difficult to maintain in the confined space of the hiding place

67) father suggested ending the affair

68) Peter was a nice but rather colorless boy

69) writing was cheerful in such dangerous circumstances

http://www.amsterdam.info/museums/anne_frank_house/

70) On August 4, 1944, officially betrayed

71) deported to various concentration camps

72) Anne Frank House, though empty, still breathe the atmosphere of that period of time

73) Anne’s original diary and other notebooks are on display in the museum

74) During the summer-season many people from all over the world visit the Anne Frank House

75) Prinsengracht 263 where Anne’s father had his buisness

76) original objects that belonged to those in hiding

77) “virtual journey” through the Anne Frank House

78) background information about the people in hiding and World War Two

79) A contemporary exhibition is presented in the exhibition hall.

80) from 15 March through 14 September the museum is opened every day from 9 am till 9 p.m